1068 Results from 2020
Daire Ferguson CEO at AvaTrade
Over the last few years, the practice of options trading has grown substantially. This growth has coincided with a series of unpredictable political and social events, which have caused high levels of volatility across currency and commodities markets. Brexit, the election of Donald Trump in the US, and now the ongoing global pandemic, have led to...
05 August 2020 Fintech
Retired Member
Financial products have a reputation for being difficult to understand when it comes to both terminology and functionality for everyday consumers. Customers often have to deal with an abundance of arcane jargon and long, convoluted application processes. One of the key goals of fintech has been to broaden access to financial products by increasing...
05 August 2020 /sustainable /devops API
Based on the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey's comments, there will soon be a decision whether to create a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for the UK. A state-issued digital pound has multiple potential effects on the UK economy. First, between 2006 and 2018, cash usage decreased from 63% to 28%, while debit card payments increased fr...
05 August 2020 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Tim Duncan Founder/CEO at FinTechCommons.org
The Covid-19 health and economic crisis has expanded and accelerated our adoption of technology at a rate never seen before. We are finding ourselves in a place that might otherwise have taken years to get to and are just starting to become aware of the implications. The crisis is also showing us that while technology can move us forward in lea
04 August 2020 /sustainable /inclusion Inclusive FinTech
Junta Nakai Global Industry Leader - Financial Services at Databricks
ESG is a Data and AI problem The benefits of incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) within business targets are well understood by companies and regulators, and especially investors. Research shows a quarter of all fund investors planned to increase holdings in the sustainable sector over the next half year. Organisations lookin...
04 August 2020 /sustainable /cloud Big Data
In a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape that's tightly coupled with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, GRC transformation has become extremely crucial to both short term and long term success of an organization. Enterprises must adapt to the emerging trends on the horizon, maximizing efficiency, and optimizing costs across the GRC value chain. In thi...
04 August 2020 /regulation /devops Innovation in Financial Services
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
There are a lot of fraud-like situations, where there’s no fraud in the strictest sense of the term, but consumers feel defrauded. Let me give a few examples: Price of a certain item is 225 (in whichever currency) at one outlet of a chain store in one zip code and 265 at another outlet of the same chain store in the adjacent zip code. Price of a c...
04 August 2020 /crime /covid-19
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
Fintech has been a major factor on the financial market for a while now, and it’s becoming quite hard to ignore its presence and wide sweeping effects. It doesn’t just exist in a vacuum though – there is a very real link between fintech and certain other sectors. One of the most notable examples is healthcare, where we’ve seen the rapid adoption o...
03 August 2020 /inclusion Fintech
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Marketplaces are emerging in every sector and the financial sector is no exception to this trend. For every product or service, for which multiple parties interact, marketplaces unfold to better match the supply and demand and improve the cooperation between the involved parties. Marketplaces have however unique dynamics, due to their multi-facial...
02 August 2020 /startups /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Tejasvi Addagada Enterprise Data Head at Fortune 500 financial service provider
Accuracy measures the degree to which data represents the real-world entity in this case a person, organization, or Source from where we know it has originated. Measuring data quality is possible if the characteristics of its physical and contextual existence are well understood. These characteristics of data can be translated into data quality rul...
02 August 2020 /regulation /identity Analytics in Banking
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